| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 240 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Series |
e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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| Contents |
Get on track with the world -- Hands, hearts, and dreams -- Does it take a miracle? -- Translating knowledges -- Engendering families and knowledges, sideways -- Discrepant distances |
| Summary |
"In Other-Worldly, Mei Zhan argues that the discourses and practices called "traditional Chinese medicine" are made through, rather than prior to, translocal encounters and entanglements. Zhan spent a decade following practitioners, teachers, and advocates of Chinese medicine through clinics, hospitals, schools, and grassroots organizations in Shanghai and the San Francisco Bay Area. Drawing on that ethnographic research, she demonstrates that the everyday practice of Chinese medicine is about much more than writing herbal prescriptions and inserting acupuncture needles. "Traditional Chinese medicine" is also made and remade through efforts to create a preventive medicine for the "proletariat world," reinvent it for cosmopolitan middle-class aspirations, produce clinical "miracles," translate knowledge and authority, and negotiate marketing strategies and medical ethics."--Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
"An earlier version of chapter 3 appeared in Cultural Anthropology 16.4 (2001): 453-80"--Title page verso |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Online resource; title from e-book title screen (EBL platform, viewed February 17, 2015) |
| SUBJECT |
China Zusammenstellung gnd |
| Subject |
Medicine, Chinese.
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Alternative medicine.
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Integrative medicine.
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Medicine, Chinese Traditional
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Complementary Therapies
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Integrative Medicine
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
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MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine.
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MEDICAL -- Diseases.
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MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine.
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MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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Alternative medicine
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Medicine, Chinese
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Integrative medicine
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Chinesische Medizin
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Kulturkontakt
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Alternatieve geneeskunde.
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Volksgeneeskunde.
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China.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780822392132 |
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0822392135 |
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1283065304 |
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9781283065306 |
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9786613065308 |
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6613065307 |
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